ADR-0082 moved docs/ to harness/ and left scripts/hooks/pre-commit staging
docs/surface.md. The hook runs on every commit, so the very commit that did the
rename hit it: `git add docs/surface.md` failed with a fatal, the commit
otherwise succeeded, and surface.md went in only because it had been staged by
hand beforehand.
The sweep missed it because the file has no extension and the grep that found
every other reference was filtered by --include='*.sh'. HARNESS.md now says so
where the hook is described, since the next rename will make the same mistake for
the same reason.
Verified by this commit: the hook ran, regenerated harness/surface.md, and staged
it without error.
2 files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adopts ideas/token-conservation.md, parked 2026-07-28, plus the disciplines
the human added: read the compressed form first, discover by mechanism,
shrink output at the source, never pay twice for the same bytes.
docs/context-economy.md owns all of it and leads with a floor, because
every cheap failure mode is also a token saving — skipping the owning doc,
guessing a signature, reporting from a diff, thinning a test — and each has
already cost this repo a defect. Frugality is for presentation and
discovery, never for the artifact or the evidence.
Mechanical, not remembered:
- scripts/surface.sh generates docs/surface.md — every top-level
declaration with its line, 261 lines standing for 3757 of source. The
pre-commit hook regenerates and stages it, so it cannot be stale, and
verify.sh compares independently for a clone that never set
core.hooksPath. The hook refuses a commit with unstaged .go changes,
since what it generated describes the working tree, not the commit.
- verify.sh --quiet: 48 lines of gate output become 1. The hook uses it.
- CLAUDE_LOC_MAX=150, the only budget billed per turn rather than per read.
Both new gates were watched failing before being kept: a doctored
surface.md, and CLAUDE_LOC_MAX temporarily set to 5.
state.md's inventory loses its LOC column. It had already drifted on six
files (content.go 381→450, render.go 447→454, web.go 206→217, check
216→223, watch 129→137, chrome 105→110) which is what a number written in
two places does; the generated file owns sizes now, the table owns purpose.
The subagent question is recorded there as the one open decision, with the
case for and against written out in the idea file.
bdeshiandClaude Opus 5